Keep a Lid on Things [Single, Import]

Crash Test Dummies | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 1999)
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Pid
• ASIN: B00000I7LS
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,366 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Keep A Lid On Things

2. Filter Queen

3. Handy Candyman

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars mezmerizing, May 17, 2002

By 

M. A. Blizard "mblizard" (San Antonio, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keep a Lid on Things (Audio CD)

strangely haunting music and chorus overlaid with restrained vocals -- in call and answer, a liturgy of sorts. I am compelled to listen and re-listen to "Keep a Lid on Things," not so much for its immedialte pleasure (although it is a very seductive work), but rather, because it remains oddly present in my mind. I keep returning to the pauses between call and response... between one line and the next: a poignancy unmatched by earlier works by CTD. In the final line, an ironic twist, the song becomes political and the meaning is transformed (again): "who put the whitey in the white house?/you did baby..." This song is multivalent -- open to numerious and sundry meanings -- the projections from the listener's mind. After listening to this song for 6 months, I continue to find it refreshingly unique... fascinating... pregnant...

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wierd, March 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Keep a Lid on Things (Audio CD)

I'm a NY Rocker and this song appeals to even me! It's a sick song

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can I Make It 4 and a half?, March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Keep a Lid on Things (Audio CD)

I love the song! Who put the doggie in the dog house? You did baby, you did....

It's a pretty cool song, though I never heard of them since the old MTV days. Now I hear them on MuchMusic, and the song is really catchy! See you later.